State Senate bill to extend domestic partnerships to unmarried heterosexual couples under 62 stopped in committee
The California Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday shelved “trailblazing legislation to extend virtually all of California’s marital rights to heterosexual, live-in couples” by granting them domestic partnership rights, reported the Aug. 31 Sacramento Bee. The current law defines domestic partners as “two adults who have chosen to share one another’s lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring”; but only same-sex couples or heterosexual couples where both members are over 62 years of age can register as domestic partners in California. Last December, Senator Carol Migden (D-San Francisco) introduced SB 11 that would extend domestic partnership rights to heterosexual couples where both members are 18 years of age or older.
The whole story is here: California Catholic Daily
